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Waiting For Your Return Part Ii

Shidaiqu literally means "songs of the era", a term used to describe a hybrid musical genre that first began permeating through the cosmopolitan city of Shanghai in the late 1920s. Blending western pop, jazz, blues and Hollywood-inspired film soundtracks with traditional Chinese elements, the shidaiqu represented a musical and cultural merging that would go on to shape a golden age of Chinese popular song & film in the pre-communism interwar period. 'Waiting For Your Return' brings together a wide collection of recordings for an anthological overview of the style. Taking in it's early beginnings in the work of the pioneering composer Li Jinhui - whose 1927 song 'Drizzle,' featuring the vocals of his daughter Li Minghui, is often referred to as the first shidaiqu record - through to more polished 1930s & 40s examples, when China's western-influenced popular music & movie industry reached it's golden age with the prevalence of the Seven Great Singing Stars (Bai Hong, Bai Guang, Gong Qiuxia, Li Xianglan, Wu Yingyin, Yao Lee and perhaps most prolific of all, Zhou Xuan). Included in the collection are tracks recorded right up until the music's demise in Shanghai in the early 1950s - during which time the Chinese Communist Party denounced shidaiqu as "yellow music", outlawed nightclubs and pop music production, and destroyed western-style instruments - following which, much of these singers would decamp to Hong Kong where many saw further success throughout the 1950s and into the 1960s.

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€ 16.95
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Format
MC - 1 disk
Release date
31-03-2023
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Item-nr
532965
EAN
5050580803206
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TRACKS

Disk 1

1. YAN FEI - LITTLE THINGS
2. BAI LIZHU - TUBEROSE
3. YAO LEE - SEND YOU OFF
4. CHEN YUMEI - SPRING NIGHT SONG
5. YING YIN - PILLOW PICTURE
6. ZHOU XUAN - SPRING FLOWERS LIKE BROCADE
7. BAI HONG - FALLING FLOWERS AND FLOWING WATER
8. WU YINGYIN - MEET BY CHANCE
9. ZHOU XUAN & YAN HUA - THE DESTINATION OF LOVE
10. LI LI-HUA - I WANT TO FOLLOW YOU
11. ZHOU XUAN - PRAYER UNDER THE MOON
12. WU YINGYIN - SPRING BREEZE BRINGS TROUBLES
13. CHEN JUANJUAN - WINDOW TO THE SOUL
14. MIN YAO - RURAL SONG
15. BAI GUANG - DONGSHAN GREEN
16. WU YINGYIN - I WANT TO FORGET YOU
17. GONG QIUXIA & HUANG YUANYIN - I ASK YOU
18. LU MING - IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE
19. WANG QINGLONG - SPRING FLOWERS, WHEN WILL YOU COME AGAIN
20. LI XIANGLAN - SECOND DREAM